Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later

From	Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
Date	2025-04-18 06:38 +0000
Organization	Some absurd concept
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> Just having a look at what your above situation might be about:
> 
>     root@theon:~ # ls -l /dev/initctl
>     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Apr 13 17:40 /dev/initctl -> /run/initctl
> 
> So this is a named pipe used for communicating with init. Why would it
> be deleted? Because there is no way to stop the init process without
> bringing down your system (pid 1 is special that way). Perhaps
> something else deleted the pipe. If it was just the symlink that was
> removed, it should have been possible to put it back.

Going back over the thread, I did figure out and post that the root
issue was systemd failing to recover after a hibernate event. So the
pipe was probably still there, but systemd was out to lunch.

Someone suggeted "magic sysrq keys" as an alternative way to shutdown
the system, but what a mess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Elijah
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not sure if he has ever rebooted that way

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Shutdown - 25 Years Later Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-16 14:32 +0000
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-18 04:34 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 05:56 +0000
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2025-04-18 06:38 +0000
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:15 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-04-18 08:53 +0100
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-18 08:16 +0000
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-04-19 14:19 +0000
          Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2025-04-19 21:10 +0000
            Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 22:22 +0000
            Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 08:13 +0100
              Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 10:31 +0100
              Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-20 12:28 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-20 20:44 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-04-21 08:24 +1000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-04-21 08:28 +1000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-21 00:29 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-22 10:35 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 10:03 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-22 11:27 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-22 10:37 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 12:13 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-22 12:38 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 14:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-04-23 12:55 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:49 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-23 19:20 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-24 00:24 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-25 17:50 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:15 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-04-28 07:45 -0700
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-28 20:18 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 12:15 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 18:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 21:18 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-29 03:02 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-22 18:20 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:45 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:46 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-23 06:29 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:46 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-22 22:43 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-23 13:35 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-24 00:23 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:20 +0200
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-25 23:14 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-26 10:32 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-26 17:08 +0100
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 22:56 +0000
                Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-26 22:52 +0000
      Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-18 10:15 +0100
        Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-04-19 00:06 +0000
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-04-18 10:41 +0000
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-04-18 06:17 -0700
    Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-18 15:29 +0200
  Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-04-18 19:02 +0000

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